A Modest Proposal to Microchip Humanity for Its Own Health and Safety By Dan Geddes Introduction Technology is changing human society in previously unimaginable ways.…
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Dan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: America's Most Critical Book (Vol. 1) and the founding editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news.
Geddes' satires and critical essays in The Satirist have been widely cited in books and academic journals and assigned in Literature courses in the US and countries abroad. He lives in Amsterdam.
The U.S. Democratic Party is confident they can win the 2020 Presidential elections on their strength of their anti-Trump, pro-war platform. “We are the opposition…
By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON, DC – The New York Times has published the personal tax returns of President Donald Trump, precipitating a media frenzy on…
By Dan Geddes On Christmas Eve Santa was making his rounds, Traveling the globe by leaps and by bounds, Arriving in Washington until…
Satire in the Global Village By Dan Geddes[1] From the talk, “Satire in the Global Village” given at the Institute of General Semantics’ symposium on…
Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years. Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote…
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman (Translated by Elizabeth Manton) Review by Dan Geddes Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) makes compelling arguments for the redistribution…
(With apologies to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”) I. April is the cruelest month, when youthful hearts with passion…
Introduction The competition to become a top corporate manager has never been fiercer. While old school corporate management values such as efficiency and vision still…
Intelligence Agencies “Live in Fear” WASHINGTON – Many Trump supporters are convinced that Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” is right on track. “Trump is…
By Dan Geddes
AMSTERDAM – Jan Smit, 44, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), proposed yesterday that Dutch should become the new official language of the EU after Brexit finally takes place next year.
“It can’t be German,” said Smit, “for semi-obvious historical reasons. The French can pretend that others are willing to learn French, but most people are not. The French are just too annoying when they correct you, even when they do it in English. And everybody hates the French. You know it; I know it.”
LAS VEGAS – Ray Milland, 45, a self-proclaimed “heavy drinker” is very sure that he’s not an alcoholic. Mr. Milland, an executive for the United…
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